Searle (G D) & Company Ltd v Celltech Ltd
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Civil Division) |
| Judgment Date | 1982 |
| Year | 1982 |
| Date | 1982 |
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27 cases
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Alesco Risk Management Services Ltd v Bishopsgate Insurance Brokers Ltd
...and the recruitment of the Departing Employees. 341 Mr Burton seeks to qualify his duties in his Opening at [59] by relying on Searle v Celltech [1982] FSR 92 per Cumming Bruce LJ who said obiter that “there is nothing in the general law to prevent a number of employees in concert deciding ......
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Esl Fuels Ltd v Stephen Fletcher and Another
...J in Balston Ltd v Headline Filters Ltd [1987] FSR 330 at 351 – 352, of Cumming-Bruce LJ in GD Searle & Co Limited v Celltech Limited [1982] FSR 92 at 99 – 101, and of the Court of Appeal in Caterpillar Logistics Services (UK) Ltd v De Crean [2012] EWCA Civ 156, reported at [2012] 3 Al......
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QBE Management Services (UK) Ltd v Charles Dymoke and Others
...compete is formed, resignation and disclosure of the intention is probably the only certain means of avoiding a breach." Defendants' reliance on Searle v Celltech [1982] 176 Mr Bloch QC placed some reliance on a well-known passage in Searle v Celltech [1982] FSR 92 at pp. 101–102 where Cu......
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Tang Siew Choy and Others v Certact Pte Ltd
... ... allegedly confidential information acquired during their employment in competition with the company. It was pertinent in such a context to bear in mind the observations which Hoffman J (as he then ... delicacy exists in this area of the law and this was expressed by Cumming Bruce LJ in GD Searle & Co Ltd v Celltech Ltd in the following words (at p 99): ... The court seeks to ... ...
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2 firm's commentaries
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Employee Competition: Recent Cases
...to compete with them. For Mr Cook, it was argued (para 66) that such a duty was non-existent, reliance being placed on Searle v Celltech [1982] FSR 92; Framlington Group v Anderson [1995] 1 BCLC 475; Saatchi & Saatchi v Saatchi 13 Feb 1995, unrep; and Helmet v Tunnard For MSHK, it was s......
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Team Move - The Potential Liabilities of the Team Head
...of fidelity concerning "team move". The law related to "team move" has changed over the years. In GD Searle & Co Ltd v Celltech Ltd [1982] F.S.R. 92, Cummings Bruce L.J. commented that "In the absence of restrictive covenants, there is nothing in the general law to prevent a number of e......
1 books & journal articles
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Intellectual Property Law
...of Appeal in Tang Siew Choy v Certact Pte Ltd referred to the following words of Cumming-Bruce LJ in G D Searle & Co Ltd v Celltech Ltd[1982] FSR 92 at 99: The court seeks to uphold the obligation of free contracting parties to a contract of service to honour their contractual obligations. ......
